boomka

8 ms·

1.
by boomka 3y ago
I am suprised anyone still gives out take-home coding assignments as part of the interview process. I have been hiring for 15+ years and have tried this approach many times. While long time ago maybe it did help a bit even then its usefulne
2.
by boomka 4y ago
I can't believe this story ended with a bunch of slogans fit for big corp motivational posters. This was a story of depravity, desperation, starvation and the horrible choices one has to make when they feel that the only choices left a
3.
by boomka 5y ago
Ukraine has been sounding an alarm about battles happening next to its nuclear reactors. I would think it's very hard to make any nuclear safety guarantees if the power station gets hit with missiles. War also makes people do crazy thi
4.
by boomka 5y ago
There are some tools, I think the reason they will never become widespread or high quality is that voice is just not a great medium for conveying that type of info in the first place. If I type a sentence and then decide to make a correctio
5.
by boomka 5y ago
something like this: https://sdgdata.gov.uk/2-3-1/ look at the table of labour productivity, it has been growing consistently and has almost tripled between 1973 and today
6.
by boomka 5y ago
the article is a bit weird, I think it refers to productivity paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox But it is a well studied topic, with much more than 5 possible explanations offered for it. I pe
7.
by boomka 5y ago
given that the article is about inefficient use of content delivery technology, it is poetically ironic to try (and kinda fail) to post said article on a website that doesn't allow the article to be fully posted
8.
by boomka 5y ago
Bone conducting headphones for running: Titanium AfterShockz. Love them, and not just because they don't block ambient sounds, but also the sound is almost unaffected by the wind, whereas all the other headphones would get completely d
9.
by boomka 6y ago
I followed your advice, turned on VPN, went private browsing and searched for "elm list". On DDG the first result was elm-lang homepage but the second was a tutorial on lists in Elm. Down the page I also saw a wikipedia entry for
10.
by boomka 7y ago
Best practice advice used to be "dont leave your commit message empty" and now it seems headed in a direction of some kind of storytelling guide. Up next: the role of character development in your commit messages
11.
by boomka 7y ago
>> The math is brutal. While perhaps 9 out of 10 startups fail, the one that succeeds will pay the founders more than 10 times what they would have made in an ordinary job. > So .. what happens to everyone else? You end up with a s
12.
by boomka 8y ago
> but is this really a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich? Doesn't most tax revenue in the US come from the rich, meaning they're covering most of the bill? Doesn't matter where tax money came from, that part we are
13.
by boomka 8y ago
They said they would build somewhere. The only question was which USA city.
14.
by boomka 8y ago
All of that would be true in any other location. One could argue other locations actually need such infrastructure more. Amazon was not hiding the fact that they would build HQ2 anyways, and in USA. There was absolutely no need to donate t
15.
by boomka 8y ago
I don't know who you are referring to as NYC, but citizens of USA as a whole are worse off. Pitting one USA municipality against another to extract subsidy for what Amazon would do anyways is just another mechanism for wealth transfer
16.
by boomka 8y ago
Wow when trying to leave that page I was hit with some of the worst adware attacks I have seen. It completely locked my android browser, filled history with dozens of entries of itself so that I cannot go back, and left me with some flashy
17.
by boomka 8y ago
There is a very interesting theory that claims one of the major factors leading to the start of WWI (not II) was that Germans could not change their mobilization plans to anything softer than outright invasion of Belgium because there was n
18.
by boomka 8y ago
I also found it bizarre to use this term. It's called World War for a reason, on both sides there were multiple countries and nationalities involved. "German" side was also full of soldiers of Romanian, Hungarian, Italian, et
19.
by boomka 8y ago
The article pointed out that couple years earlier the captain did exactly as you suggest and pulled away from the brink because of safety concerns. His company punished him immediately with a big demotion. It seems clear that the culture in
20.
by boomka 9y ago
If you look around, you will find that info quite easily. Here is just one example of good analysis on that topic: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/11/legato-brexiteers-fa...
21.
by boomka 9y ago
By the way, in the case of Dr Dao it was also not overbooking that caused him to get bumped off, but airline's assignment of lower priority to him than someone else. Just like in the parent article. There were other misreportings as we
22.
by boomka 10y ago
"Too many humans" is a lazy, negligent argument by those who don't want to make any changes in how we conduct business. Deforestation in Brazil is happening not because humanity really needs that lumber. It doesn't. Defo
23.
by boomka 16y ago
That is the truth that is often overlooked. Feedback is not entirely useless, but good managers know that how useful a person ends up being, is not a function of his knowledge at the time of the interview. And that is true even for highly s
24.
by boomka 16y ago
This is idiocy. There is no system in existence that I know of where you will be allowed to sit and try millions of passwords. About the only place I can think of is encrypted partitions, when you somehow obtained the physical drive. But t